Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Probably everything :/

[skyneedler9]

So I spent a almost an entire day trying to decipher the magical question...... could I use the faces I export from the sculpt menu in racemenu to replace the facegens generated with ck with good ole ctrl+F4....... And i found out under catastrophic circumstances, -exaggeration- No it does not work... not for me at least.  Try and try as I might... over and over again, nope, nope nope nope... I'm sitting here like...

 

First off you're a damn nif file showing me all head parts are correct and in working order you stupid damn nif... so why am I not getting my damn face model and getting some gray face no pointy eared abomination that at least looks decent enough no default fugly face.  BUT It's like CK can't figure out whether it should use the nif i put in it's facegen folder it creates.  I even tried to overwrite the nif with nifscope still nothing.  

 

Something tells me there's an obvious fix that makes the game ACTUALLY Override the ck made file in the esp with the facegen you put.  Like not half ass but actually use the file correctly not like mash up an abomination with parts from both the esp and the facegen folder... but i'm not getting how to do that. 

 

In FO4 you had to write some stuff in the FO4 ini file to tell the game to override files in the data folder with the meshes/ textures/ sound/ and so on... but I haven't seen anyone complain about this.  

 

I seen people say yay facegen works... and think to myself....... WHY ISNT IT FUNCTIONING RIGHT FOR ME DAMMIT!?  What I do to screw it up X_X.  

 

I'd beg for help, but I learned you can put all the pleases in the world but sometimes you don't get an answer.  ... donno if I even put this topic in the right place either... If I sound too confusing let me know, I wrote this during a moment of flustered frustration. 

 

 

EDIT:: :/ Now I feel all of the stupid in the entirety of the world!... I FIXED THE ISSUE!  

 

I got fed up and frustrated and what brought me here specifically was when I ported branches from my exported face from facemenu to the nif file in facegen I got weird shit like copying human eyes and pasted as human brows or head... And as a novice nif editor I didn't take the time to realize it ported the correct branch info of the eyes the name just got wonked off, so I went to the name string, corrected the branch with the correct name and presto viola... The face came out PERFECTLY now.  So false alarm, do what you will with this topic.  Save someone who seeks answers to their question if they so arise to have a derp like I did XD.  By the way if anybody uses nifmerger that's fine but I'd get rid of it, things port more accurately in my case by just doing it the old fashioned nifscope way X3.

 

[Andy14]

To use your face as a preset for NPC's in CK you can use "Enhanced Character Edit".

Procedure is described on the page.

Link

 

 

[skyneedler9]

Thanks for the heads up, yeah I used ECE a long time ago, -year or two- had that ole nose job 32 to copy faces in ck XD, I remember that.  I got the hang of it for a while, but back then I modded the game so heavy my head spun everytime an error popped up.  But as I said in my edit I fixed the issue, I wish skyrim caught on before FO4 did... you can almost edit npc faces perfectly in fo4 while in game... I say almost because sometimes it gets... weird.

 

But I do thank you for the quick reply.  If all else fails I'll relearn old ECE... -shudders- some people can handle that thing but it was a nightmare of memorization.

[Andy14]

You can also use your current Face from RaceMenu in ECE.

ECE and RaceMenu can be used together (restrictions are described on ECE and RaceMenu page).

 

Example Iona

 

and Lydia

 

Both created in CK and exported with Ctrl + F4.

 

Because CK does not support 1024,2048 for FaceTint (max is 256 I think), I have created the facetints with NPC Face Editor.

 

Link (on Nexus offline): https://mods.curse.com/mods/skyrim/skyrim-npc-editor

 

[skyneedler9]

Well that Explains why facetints were being a real booch with me.  I will be trying this definitely.  Thanks for the info ^^